How many times have you sat behind motionless rods waiting for a bite while watching carp merrily clearing up your free baits and all the time wondering what on earth you can do produce a hooked fish?! One part of the answer is not simply what your bait is or how you apply it, but what your bait is not! Read on to discover more and get some proven ideas for hooking more fish!

Your observation skills may be good, or they may be bad but they can be very much a part of your carp fishing success. You learn so much by watching fish respond to your presence at the bankside. What they do when you cast out or bait up is also very interesting and almost as important as what happens when you pack up and vacate your swim, only to sneak stealthily back to observe fish over your baited area!

If you want to catch more big cold water carp but are in need of a little sound technical advice about bait substances and bait choices to improve your catches that have been very well proven in winter - then read on!

Carp live in an environment ruled by water but why is this obvious fact something you can exploit to catch many more fish?! Carp detect your baits by many actions and interactions of substances both upon their senses and upon the water itself. So for instance take the example of ethyl alcohol based concentrated flavours which are popular in winter. These are very highly soluble in water and so disperse very quickly through the water. This dispersal through its mixing with water produces a concentration gradient of flavours that carp can follow back to your bait easily. Many great winter flavours have this kind of effect.

Carp fishing and catfish fishing are expensive sports and this article will help you avoid having to keep on paying for costly water soluble PVA products to bait up with - and will show you how to make much cheaper baits especially for winter (or all year round!) So read on for the very cheap and effective carp bait recipe ideas that are revealed here!

We humans are all very familiar with carbohydrates as land based forms of life; and nutrition from wheat grains, maize and sweetcorn kernels and rice for example are vital staple sources of food around the world and these offer minimal amounts of protein and other essentials required to sustain life. Cheap carbohydrates are also used in farmed carp feeds too. Proteins are obviously an important factor in carp feed design as carp utilise proteins to such an incredible degree, and these can be incorporated in unusual ways in cheaper forms of carp bait formulas and you will see!

baits need ideally to be easy and make fast to make or prepare. Here are some innovative ideas for proven naturally-based cheap homemade baits anyone can make easily and fast and use to great effect when on holiday or stuck for choice!

The idea of using particle baits like maple peas, black eye beans, hazelnuts, peanuts or Brazil nuts seems to be very foreign to so many carp anglers today despite these being very well proven baits for big fish in past decades (as well as today but more on the quiet!) Ccmoore offer Brazil nuts pre-cooked which are obviously highly effective. But not everyone thinks ahead when on holiday or cannot source readymade baits.

to laugh when I hear about homemade corn or maize flour type baits actually being used for competition carp fishing! (fishing matches or tournaments are not the limit of competing as we are all fishing against fish instincts - which is why you need to exploit them by using better baits!) Corn or maize baits are about the least nutritionally attractive of any baits you can possibly choose as competitive baits! You can do a quantum level better than this " so read on now and benefit from being much more open-minded about winning homemade baits!

an account of my latest carp fishing exploits and catches by refining my cheap homemade baits and includes details of natural flavours, feeding triggers, nutritional attraction, enhancers, essential oils, new attractors (and much more besides) to boost my catches!

I have not been fishing recently although last time I fished the local pond with some of my homemade baits and hooked 3 out of the ponds estimated 6 residents - in just 2 and a half hours! Having previously hooked just 5 of them in total in 10 visits shows I did something very right regarding the baits used, rig preparation and actual fishing and baiting approach this time because these fish are very clued-up and constantly fished for by anglers often using very fine tackle and tiny baits.

u can pull to your baits the more carp you will catch! Betaine is a big buzz word in carp fishing and listed as an extremely potent ingredient in boilies and pellets and other baits and liquid complexes etc too. Read on to discover more about how it works, how to use it far better - and catch many more fish!

The betaine most often offered for use in carp fishing baits is the commonest natural form usually referred to as glycine betaine or trimethylglycine; the free base form. (This is a quaternary ammonium compound related to the amino acid glycine.) This product is the familiar white sweet-tasting crystalline stuff often called the anhydrous betaine form. It is stable up to 200 degrees Celsius - so boiling it in baits does not damage it!

e to carp baits than meets the eye (and human senses) and these hidden factors can easily give you those edges you need to catch a big very wary fish or catch you far more than your fair share of fish over all; so read on for some surprising carp bait secrets!

I never got on with chess as a kid but I sure loved watching fish. All those videos all over the place showing carp feeding in the presence of free baits, and then in the presence of free baits plus a baited rig illustrate only to a limited degree what could be going on in your lake with your fish!

diversity of readymade carp baits now available makes your head spin, so here are some particularly good new ideas to ensure you keep ahead of those crafty carp and keep catching!

Using readymade baits in making your own unique bait mixtures for even more impact is easy. These days it is almost impossible to separate match fishing baits from carp fishing baits now that match carp fishing is so predominant and spurring bait companies into supplying carp baits for carp of all sizes! Many match size carp are reaching the upper double figures and such fish easily chomp down bigger baits like 20 millimetre boilies intended for the real specimen fish!

ven more bites from bigger fish? The answer is give them more of what they essentially need by leveraging nutrients as one example in your baits, by adding readymade easily-available high protein liquids. With over 3 decades of experience using liquid foods I can tell you a few of the best and how to use them to best effect; so read on!

If you want to boost your catches or make your baits pull more fish packing your baits with essential amino acids and betaine is easy although far from limited to just these. The daily requirements carp have for all kinds of nutrients means that we have a vital area of leverage to exploit. It is logical that carp are extremely sensitive to substances that keep them alive - betaine is one of them! (In fact we humans have an essential requirement for betaine too and it is found naturally in our tissues.)

Now if your baits have enough good reasons for carp to consume them they will have many advantages over a range of less nutritionally-stimulating baits. But do remember that nutritional is only one part of bait formulation as many substances which are not directly nutritional in nature can very much influence fish responses and behaviours in the short and long-terms.

Whenever carp are possibly deficient in any of their essential nutrients, the inclusion of many of the most stimulatory of these nutrients in sufficient levels may be just enough to achieve a hooked fish when less nutritional baits may well fail.

The Rod Hutchinson brand is the oldest established bait company in carp fishing, and started in the late Seventies. If you want to know a few of the names that epitomise the pedigree and success of this company just consider just these 2 giants in terms of carp bait flavours namely, Scopex and Monster Crab.

Other great flavours I have used with very satisfying and consistent success over the last 3 decades include:

Megaspice, Mega Tutti Fruitti, Maplecreme, chocolate Malt, Strawberry Cream and Pineapple Cream, Secret Agent and Mulberry Florentine.

I wish to give Rod his well-deserved dues in recommending his completely trustworthy nutritional supplements which have caught me loads of bigger carp and other fish in all kinds of baits for 30 years. I have added various of these to my homemade boilies, pellets, ground baits, particles, natural sea food baits, meat and other baits, plus used them to top readymade baits of many of the big UK bait companies. My list includes:

Shellfish Sense Appeal, Regular Sense Appeal, Maplesteep Liquor, Amino Blend Supreme, Aminos Blend Swan Mussel, The Liver Compound, Compound TF, and Solutein.

There is a wealth of very productive and long-proven liquid foods and flavours available and please take note of this lesson. Some of the best products Rod Hutchinson ever brought out ended up being discontinued because shops wanted to condense their range of bait products. Some of these withdrawn flavours were some of the very best that Rod has ever had but had yet to become legendary in public perception. By all this I mean that there are definitely giants like Scopex and Minamino out there and it is up to you to experiment and decide which products you are going to make legendary through your catches and resultant opinion! Experimentation in bait-making is highly productive I can assure you! Some of the flavours I am also very keen on from Ccmoore, include:

Anchovy Extract, Ultra Green-Lipped Mussel Essence, Ultra Peardrop Essence, Ultra Belachan Essence, Ultra Bloodworm Essence, Ultra Cranberry Essence, Ultra Tuna Essence, Ultra Tangerine Essence and Ultra Honey Essence, (among others.) I have recently been doing very well on a combination of Ccmoore Crab Essence mixed with Frankfurter Essence plus various essential oils and other liquid extracts.

Ccmoore have become well-renowned for their liquid food supplements like the Rod Hutchinson brand and some of these liquid foods are really becoming legendary in their own right. Ccmoore have 12 generations-worth of animal nutrition and feed experience going in their liquid food supplement designs and this background is an indication of their potency! Some of the Ccmoore liquid foods I have used with complete confidence and great success especially when targeting bigger fish include:

Feedstim XP, Marine Amino Compound, Red Venom Liquid, Bloodworm Extract, Mussel Extract, Liquid Super Slop, and liquid Salmon and Krill - which is a genuine legend in the making. You can use these either individually in any of your baits or in mixtures as I do. (Your baits really do become fish magnets!)

The secret in using natural liquid foods is in keeping them present in high enough levels in your swim, at all times and this is connected very much to your free-baiting skills and experience and the profiles of the baits you apply in terms of free amino acid-based liquid foods and other naturally soluble extracts etc.

Rod Hutchinson used to recommend low levels of his Regular Sense Appeal around 30 milliliters per pound of base mix early on as I recall, but I put lots more in and my results got better as a result. It was a real breakthrough for me to discover I could add loads more liquid attraction to my boilie base mixes than just the 5 millilitres of flavour and perhaps 30 milliliters of liquid foods.

This success illustrates that thinking about your baits, avoiding standard recommendations and experimenting yourself can really work well! This is especially when your homemade baits and fishing experiments are based on real-time catches-feedback. This means you will know very quickly exactly when you have a winner! The impregnation of machine-extruded pellets with nutritional oils improves their attraction and similar things work in regards to flavours, liquid foods and a range of baits including readymade baits, homemade boilies, pellets, particles, meat and fish baits etc.

Watering down your eggs with liquid foods and other liquids means your baits work more like pastes as they become more water-soluble and are both able to adsorb and absorb water far better into the bait as well as leaching far more liquid attraction. These few factors alone seriously boost bait performance. For more information see my unique bait-making and bait secrets site; Baitbigfish!

By Tim Richardson.

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